haha. lovely thraed
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:36 (eight years ago)
I think I'm starting to warm to octopuses now.
― calzino, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:37 (eight years ago)
come on in, the water's lovely
(and filled with octopuses)
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:37 (eight years ago)
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7e/9f/30/7e9f306fd62090babe0b9cd632a28cf4.jpg
― mark s, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:39 (eight years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/h0wilCq.gif
― mark s, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:42 (eight years ago)
protection wheeeeee!
― mark s, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:43 (eight years ago)
https://www.guitar-muse.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Octoguitar.jpg
eight arms to rock u
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:45 (eight years ago)
you, a wise evolutionary scientist: "octopuses have learnt to armour themselves with coconut shells" me, an internet clown: THEY FUCKING LOVE IT
― mark s, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:45 (eight years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/TYFZyjs.gif
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:46 (eight years ago)
PLUR.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:47 (eight years ago)
http://www.residentadvisor.net/images/news/2017/octooctawherearewegoingalbum.jpg
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:47 (eight years ago)
https://hips.hearstapps.com/pop.h-cdn.co/assets/15/14/1428095150-octopus.gif?crop=1xw:1.0xh;center,top&resize=480:*
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:48 (eight years ago)
http://www.animalanswers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/34777tx.gif
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:50 (eight years ago)
https://i.redd.it/dexbwh2947vz.gif
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:51 (eight years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/zYKmo7g.gif
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:54 (eight years ago)
pixar couldn't make the lil' un much cueter than that.
― calzino, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:56 (eight years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/MpzuCeq.gifzq
― mark s, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:57 (eight years ago)
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2c/e9/dc/2ce9dc2d28e2f80394f684bc54dba14e.gif
― mark s, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:58 (eight years ago)
lord almighty look at that li'l guy
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:59 (eight years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/RYPkDA3.gif
― mark s, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 17:00 (eight years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRLLnmqpGas
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 17:03 (eight years ago)
lol i had one of those
― mark s, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 17:04 (eight years ago)
Genuinely shocked I never thought to start a cute octopus thread.
https://media3.rbl.ms/i/?u=%2f8xD4p8L37yWuk.gif&h=https%3a%2f%2fi.giphy.com&c=4121437786
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 17:20 (eight years ago)
SQUID ALERT
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 17:28 (eight years ago)
https://media.giphy.com/media/VbIbtOIPanrt6/giphy.gif
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 17:35 (eight years ago)
http://www.gifbin.com/bin/012012/camouflaged-octopus.gif
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 17:38 (eight years ago)
This is excellent background:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n17/amia-srinivasan/the-sucker-the-sucker
Captive octopuses appear to be aware of their captivity; they adapt to it but also resist it. When they try to escape, which is often, they tend to wait for a moment they aren’t being watched. Octopuses have flooded laboratories by deliberately plugging valves in their tanks with their arms. At the University of Otago, an octopus short-circuited the electricity supply – by shooting jets of water at the aquarium lightbulbs – so often that it had to be released back into the wild. Jean Boal, a cephalopod researcher at Millersville University in Pennsylvania, reported feeding octopuses in a row of tanks with thawed squid, not an octopus’s favourite food. Returning to the first tank, Boal found that the octopus in it hadn’t eaten the squid, but was instead holding it out in its arm; watching Boal, it slowly made its way across the tank and shoved the squid down the drain.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 17:38 (eight years ago)
http://www.gifbin.com/bin/042015/1430157757_octopus_hunts_crab.gif
(octo hunts crab)
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 17:40 (eight years ago)
xp Think you linked to that before on some animal thread. One of my fave things I read last year.
good to see octopuses share my ‘fuck squid, they are garbage’ outlook
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 17:55 (eight years ago)
I strongly condemn these vile displays of cephalopod racism
― you can make fun of birthday parties all you want (ultros ultros-ghali), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 18:02 (eight years ago)
https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2015-04/21/14/enhanced/webdr14/anigif_original-4682-1429640222-4.gif?downsize=715:*&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 18:06 (eight years ago)
i can't bring myself to eat octopus anymore tbh
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, January 24, 2018 11:20 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
same, i phased it out in the last year or so.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 18:20 (eight years ago)
https://78.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly6h11neeC1qbypg1o1_400.jpg
― Joanna NEU!some (Leee), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 18:41 (eight years ago)
https://78.media.tumblr.com/f4826ca5a0f54b4580c745d42dd960a0/tumblr_inline_o6kqg7CJln1qk45js_500.gif
― Joanna NEU!some (Leee), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 18:42 (eight years ago)
Not a squid!
http://tybe.tumblr.com/post/162917051923/montereybayaquarium-tybe-montereybayaquarium
― Joanna NEU!some (Leee), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 18:44 (eight years ago)
Giant Pacific Octopuses aren't so much cute as beautiful.
https://78.media.tumblr.com/b71bc8cbfdf2395b4df549cadfeba57f/tumblr_o4ys49vfDl1uap0hno1_1280.jpg
Also they are very DNFW:
https://youtu.be/_HNZePQosxU
― Joanna NEU!some (Leee), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 18:50 (eight years ago)
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, January 24, 2018 1:20 PM (thirty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
just curious, why?
― marcos, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 18:55 (eight years ago)
feels wrong to eat something so patently intelligent, mainlyhypocritical and/or logically inconsistent, i know, since i do still eat other animals, but there’s just something about octopuses 🤷♂️
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 19:37 (eight years ago)
https://i.pinimg.com/236x/69/96/00/699600e8fff505c50101f7c9dcecb862--clam-shells-clams.jpg
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 20:23 (eight years ago)
xp yeah that's basically my take
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 20:24 (eight years ago)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BeZAhwVlsRl/
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 26 January 2018 02:28 (eight years ago)
I highly recommend the recent book "The Soul of an Octopus" by Sy Montgomery. Some amazing stories of her getting to know them as individuals.
― mick signals, Friday, 26 January 2018 17:04 (eight years ago)
https://78.media.tumblr.com/1eed17006c93432d6a78b66c04a27660/tumblr_on4y8t4g5o1w5v92so6_500.gif
(film serial The Trail of the Octopus, dir. Duke Worne, 1919)
― mark s, Friday, 2 February 2018 22:17 (eight years ago)
hawt
― i gotta be a gazpacho man (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 2 February 2018 22:34 (eight years ago)
octinderpus
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 2 February 2018 22:34 (eight years ago)
just finished reading sy montgomery’s soul of an octopus, it is fkn rad and made me cry a couple of times
how do i shot octopus friendship
― i gotta be a gazpacho man (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 14:52 (eight years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/FlEbQx8.gifv
― mark s, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 15:00 (eight years ago)
d'awww indeed
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 15:06 (eight years ago)
octocuddles
― i gotta be a gazpacho man (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 15:24 (eight years ago)
*ringo starr voice*
― mark s, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 16:25 (three years ago)
YES.Incidentally: https://www.atlasobscura.com/experiences/cephalopods-online-course
Incidentally: https://www.atlasobscura.com/experiences/cephalopods-online-course
My family and I did the last session of this course because my 8-year-old is a squid fanatic, and it was a very worthwhile and recommendable experience.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Thursday, 28 July 2022 04:55 (three years ago)
perfect
― corrs unplugged, Thursday, 28 July 2022 09:01 (three years ago)
cross-posted from Weird Animals thread:
More evidence (i.e. RNA editing) that cephalopods are aliens: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/curiouser-and-curiouser-octopuss-evolution-is-even-stranger-than-thought/― Antifa Lockhart (Leee), Wednesday, September 14, 2022 9:38 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― Antifa Lockhart (Leee), Wednesday, September 14, 2022 9:38 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 16 September 2022 02:01 (three years ago)
shameless BG bait:
Empathic octopus usually goes nearshore to receive the caresses of children before returning offshore (Sardinia, Italy) pic.twitter.com/Lqth1vaoG0— Gabriele Corno (@Gabriele_Corno) September 19, 2022
― mark s, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 10:47 (three years ago)
a+ octopus, would caress
― manic pixie dream shatner (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 13:13 (three years ago)
wild
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 17:35 (three years ago)
Yes this a squid fight me:
This is a piglet squid and it is real.📸: (Cabrillo Marine Aquarium/Gary Florin) pic.twitter.com/pyf2SnvUh1— Erin Biba (@erinbiba) July 26, 2021
https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/travel/2022/09/lindblad-expeditions-national-geographic-to-explore-kimberley-and-beyond/
― Antifa Lockhart (Leee), Thursday, 22 September 2022 17:53 (three years ago)
pouring one out for the other cephalopod thread, RIP to a real oneeven more squiddities and sepiidies of the schooling class - the other cephalopod thread
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 23 September 2022 01:45 (three years ago)
Doh, I didn't see that thread! Will bookmark it now!
― Antifa Lockhart (Leee), Friday, 23 September 2022 04:00 (three years ago)
I was a bit tongue in cheek there, I don't think the cephalopod ILX traffic is so intense that we need two threads!
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 23 September 2022 04:26 (three years ago)
excuse me this is a squid-exclusionary space by design, we absolutely do need two cephalopod threads
― manic pixie dream shatner (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 23 September 2022 07:13 (three years ago)
https://pbfcomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/PBF078-Nautical_Awards.jpg
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 23 September 2022 08:26 (three years ago)
splitter
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 23 September 2022 08:50 (three years ago)
Octopuses don't have tentacles, they have arms!
― Antifa Lockhart (Leee), Friday, 23 September 2022 15:41 (three years ago)
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/09/science/octopus-throwing-silt.html
https://vp.nyt.com/video/2022/11/08/104105_1_09tb-angry-octopus-silt02_wg_720p.mp4
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 21:20 (three years ago)
exasperation can lead to the deployment of projectiles as a potential manner of cephalopod conflict resolution
― corrs unplugged, Thursday, 10 November 2022 07:21 (three years ago)
we shd quit eating these super-smart aliens imo
An Octopus riding an Eel to avoid being eaten. pic.twitter.com/3zH4GWaA0i— Weird and Terrifying (@weirdterrifying) December 23, 2022
― mark s, Saturday, 24 December 2022 14:16 (three years ago)
I have in almost everything. But takoyaki tho.
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 24 December 2022 18:52 (three years ago)
If you mute the twee music, this is absolutely enchanting:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydrc489USbM
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 05:23 (two years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou-tbidf5GY
― Baroque Obama (Leee), Thursday, 20 February 2025 05:04 (one year ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwwRK3LBAFo
― Krustacean the Clown (Leee), Sunday, 8 June 2025 01:45 (one year ago)
Ah bummer, you'll javelin to click through to see an octopus impersonating a moray rel.
― Krustacean the Clown (Leee), Sunday, 8 June 2025 01:46 (one year ago)
Argonauts don't turn down free rides.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhCmphuyocc
― Slow Loris Leachman (Leee), Tuesday, 7 October 2025 02:37 (eight months ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcWnQ7fYzwI
― Maresn3st, Friday, 7 November 2025 20:44 (seven months ago)
<3
― nxd, Sunday, 9 November 2025 03:48 (seven months ago)